Airstream Life with No Experience
We’ve been planning to launch our 365-day cross-country tour for months. But, due to the high demand for Airstreams, our timeline was moved around a lot. And, because of that, we kind of gave up on finalizing packing until we actually picked up the Airstream. That probably wasn’t our best idea ever.
Packing an #rvlife is just as much work as moving from one home to another - maybe more, since you know everything needs to be secured or else it might break since your home is on wheels.
This video documents the craziness that ensued in a 24-hour packing extravaganza with a couple of RV newbies and one super beautiful Airstream. We broke things, smashed a tail light, almost got electrocuted and there were a few drops of blood. We don’t recommend doing this as we did, folks. 😂
_ ⏱️ RV LIFE VIDEO CONTENTS ________________________
00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - Meet Lauren & Daniel
02:15 - Airstream walkthrough and pickup from Tampa dealership
03:16 - Daniel’s first try backing in with a 30’ travel trailer
03:57 - Daniel tries not to electrocute himself unhitching the #Airstream
05:20 - Lauren learns what jackknifing the truck means and what it does to taillights
06:15 - Packing our vegan kitchen
07:27 - Daniel contemplates if packing the RV in 24 hours was a good idea
08:05 - Lauren shows kitchen packed with lots of storage
10:59 - We reminisce on Day 1 Learnings before bed
12:42 - Final packing results of our temporary room at Lauren’s Dad’s place
13:00 - Lauren and Daniel hope they packed everything
13:34 - Our first on-the-road mishap only three minutes after departure
16:14 - We finally hit the road for full-time RV life
_ 🗺️ ABOUT WANDERLOCAL ________________________
Hello, friends! We're Lauren and Daniel. For nearly a decade, we chased the American dream of owning our own business. We built a successful communications agency and had "it all." All the stuff - that is. But, after watching a documentary on minimalism in January 2019, we sold everything, except our company, and took off to travel the world!
But after a year and a half of travel, we got stuck in Morocco and had to take a US rescue flight home during COVID-19. We’re pretty excited to stay on American soil for a while.
We've always been passionate about exploring local while we travel, but small businesses need all of us to shop locally now more than ever, and we want to inspire people to do just that.
We're on a mission to visit all 50 states in 365 days while shopping 100% American made and we're doing it in an #AirstreamRV.
It's our hope by sharing our adventures and tips for shopping locally, you will be inspired to do the same - creating your own incredible memories in our beautiful country while you #wanderlocal.